2 Samuel 5-6, Acts 2: 1-21, Psalm 85: 8-13
Acts 2: 21 (ESV)
“And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Verse 21 from Acts 2 is Peter quoting the Book of Joel on Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples. I love this line, but it’s not as simple as a person calling on God to save him and not having faith and obedience to God. I think people use this line to say that anyone can call on God and get a miracle without having to have faith and obedience to God and his laws. While I would never presume to know the mind of God and his grace, which means that there can be miracles when a person calls on God without having faith or obedience to God. I think that to rely on Grace does not make sense. Why even call out to a God that you don’t believe in or obey to save you?
But for the person who has faith in God, prays to him daily, reads and knows the Bible, and follows God’s laws to the best of their abilities given our sinful nature, calling on God to save you is a promise God has made to you for your faith. And God always fulfills his promises. And while sometimes it doesn’t seem like God always saves, the true believer has the faith to know that God sees the future farther and further than we can and what may seem like a disaster in the moment in the end turns out to be best thing that ever happened in a true believer’s life.
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